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Suspension hook, 19th–early 20th century
Wood, traces of pigment
33.7 x 9.5 x 8.9 cm (13 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.178

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by J. Viot in 1929 in Lake Sentani but probably traded from Humboldt Bay (see below). Robert Emile Bouchard Collection, Montreuil France." (Catalog #571, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 185.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This ancient suspension hook has male figures on the upper register and female figures below. Two comparable objects are illustrated in Greub, 1992: 78, 124, figs. 27 and 96. (The latter was collected in Asei, a Lake Sentani village, in 1920 but its iconography suggests a Humboldt Bay origin. The other was collected in Humboldt Bay itself.) Suspension hooks without figural carving were common and used by every family. Hooks with human figures-"symbols of human fertility" (ibid., 121)-carved in them, however, were "exclusively the property of the ondoforo and had a ceremonial function" (ibid.). They were used in public for displaying gifts from guests, "the first products of a new garden and the first game brought home by a young man" (ibid.)." (Catalog #571, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 185.) 1992 - Koiijman and Hoogerbrugge in Greub, 1992: 124, fig. 97."

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